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Under the influence: how yesterday's drugs become tomorrow's medicines

19 mins | May 28, 2017

How did enlightenment thinkers distinguish between ‘drugs’ and ‘medicines’? Benjamin Breen tries out the different brews suggested by them and writes in Aeon Magazine to ask, how should we?

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